Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
trustees. They can make 1t an agrt
cultural college, with all the name
implies, II they see fit to do so.
Industrial Breyities.

| Inlll, anu the government now prOpos
es to facilitate it by the introduction OF
the best modern appliances for prepar.
ing the flax for spinning. With this
object in view. the Gillian government
has decreed the opening of q special
international exhibit on of machinery
adapted to separating the flax from
the fiber, stem and leaves of the flax
plant, and has offered prize of 81, 900
for the machine which shall be decided
by the jury of awards to be opened
Nov. l. 1887. at the agricultural expert
mental garden. in Santiago, the capital
of Chilli, under the auspices of the Soc
iety for Industrial Improvement.
Ducks are not subject to many dis
eases and usually thrive well il they can
have plenty to eat and clean place to
stay in nights. with little water for
bathing. Daring the laying season
they should he confined nights. aud
not let out until after they have laid
their eggs. which they will usually do
before 9 o'clock. If allowed to run
out they are apt to drop their eggs
wherever they are at the time, be it on
land or in the water. and seem to want
no regular nest until they are nearly
ready for setting. The duck is not a
good mother, taking but little care of
her ducklings, and often inclined to
to kill those which are not her own.
The people of Siberia buy their milk
frozen, and for convenience it is aiSJw-
cd to freeze about a stick, which comes
rs handle to carry it by. The milk
man leaves one chunk or two chunks
rs the case may be, at the houses of
his customers. The children in
Irkutsk, instead Of crying for a drink
of milk. cry for bite of milk. The
people there in the winter time do not
say, "bc careful not TO spill the milk"
Broken milk is better than spilled milk,
though. because there is an oppor-
tunity to save the pieces.
A Minnesota farmer gives the fol-
lowing d rections for making ''death
on gophers: Take small bottle of
strychnine and pulverize il. mixing it
with half pint of grease. fried out of
the best breakfast bacon. Put this
mixture into five or six quarts of corn
and stir until every grain is, thoroughly
CREASED over. Strew these savory kerr
nels three or four feet apart around
the entire field on the edge of the plow-
ing. The gophers generally burrow
in the unbroken sod near By. They
smell the bacon and get the poison i'm
mediately. and continue to come to the
feast until all arc quieted.
A device for reducing and atomizing
sulphur by the application of steam or
heated air has been invented. The sui
phur, in n crud or any suitable form is
put in funnelshaped hopper or rece-
iver around the exterior of which is
fitted a jacket. into which steam is adj
mitted from boiler. The steam is
preferably admitted at the upper end
of the jacket, and the lower end is con-
nected with the boiler by pipe, so that
tbs water of condensation will be re-
turned to the boiler without other
mechanism.
Screws that are too small for sepa-
rate treatment may be cleaned from
rust as follows: Take a pound of
screws and place them in small box.
a cigar box W II do; put small guam
tity of oil on them and shake for a
minute; then put piece of cotton waste
in the box, aud repeat for minute;
finally put a handful OF saw dust in the
box, and shake for another minute or
so. and remove the sawdust by sitting
it from the screws i'm fine sieve. The
screws will come ont well cleaned.
When young trees are not kept we'll
mulched 1t will pay TO keep the surface
of the soil stirred. making it fine and
mellow. This applies especially to the
next two months. What We want to
secure is strong. healthy growth. so
that the wood will have plenty of time
to harden before freezing weather sets
in. a certain degree of moisture is
also essential to the life of the tree, and
when mulching is not done, this can
only be secured through thorough
working OF the soil.
The cleanest and most perfectly pol
ished floors have no water used on
them. They are SIMPLY rubbed off
every morning with large flannel
cloth, which is soaked in kerosene oil
once in two or three weeks. Take the
cloth, and with rubbing brush or
stubby broom go rapidly mp and down
the planks mot across them). After q
few rubbngs the floor Will assume q
polished appearance that is not easily
defaced.
j. II. Beal, of New York. who has
made himself very conspicuous in va
rious organizations of diary men and
farmers. and who collected large sums
to pay his expenses us the champion of
the antioleomaryarIne bill. is now en-
gagged in sending out circulars of q
gold and silver mining company. AS q
friend of the sons of toll Joseph is al
ways active.
The Society for the Promotion OF
Agricultural Science will hold its eighth
annual meeting at Columbia college,
New York, beginning Monday even
ing, Aug. 8, and continuing on Tues
day-the days Immediately preceding
the thirty-sixth meeting of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science.
When working among the trees and
plants it is a good plan to keep prun-
ing knife convenient, and whenever q
limb or branch is growing wrong or in
wrong place it should be cut out. In
this way trees may be kept in good
shape with very ] tile trouble.
During recent storm Mt Rock
Creek. Cal, flock of wild geese while
in the air were struck by lightning,
and six of them fell to the ground. A
farmer picked them up. and finding
them plumb and fat plucked them and
used them for food.
The most valuable elements of ma
nure are not to be measured by the
cord. The liquid and gaseous portions
are the most valuable. and also the
hardest to hold. They are the first to
| escape and PASS off unnoticed throuoh